Rose G. Valentine

Rose has been a volunteer all her life, learning the importance of giving back from her parents.  She graduated from the University of Bridgeport with a BA in Political Science and raised my family in Livingston, NJ, before retiring to LBI in 2001.  Following college, she worked for management consultants, McKinsey & Co. in Manhattan in their business library.  When her children were full-time in school, she began her career in non-profits with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and was the Executive Director of the North Jersey Chapter until her retirement.  Post-retirement, she worked part-time in the Holocaust Department of the Jewish Federation in Whippany, NJ, and has held many positions in volunteer organizations, including President of a local B’nai B’rith Women in North Jersey and President of the Jewish Community Center of LBI.  While at her winter home in Bluffton, SC, she has been privileged to volunteer for several years as a greeter at the original VIM clinic on Hilton Head Island, SC.